How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.